It won’t surprise anyone to learn that I’m a fan of USA‘s PSYCH.  The new season is starting this Friday, August 7th at 10/9c, and the show is kicking things off with a solid start.  Below I’ve got details and clips, an interview with James and Dule, and an incredible prize pack giveaway with great stuff for two lucky winners.  You can also catch James Roday getting put through the ScreenTime ringer here.

Don’t miss the season 4 premiere of PSYCH on USA NETWORK, Friday at 10/9c. While vacationing in Canada, Shawn and Gus track Despereux, an elusive international art thief who has eluded Lassiter for years. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) guest-stars in “Extradition: British Columbia.” Become a fan on Facebook, Follow Psych on Twitter, and play Psych games on USA’s Character Arcade.

The new season of PSYCH is really going to push the envelope, and I’m exceedingly confident that fans and newcomers alike will not be disappointed.  The premiere episode is a solid start, and proves immediately that the show isn’t letting up for a second.  An especially fun episode (mentioned in the interview below), we get all the fun and mystery we’re used to, and some nice establishing work for the rest of the season.  Elwes is great in his role, and the scenes in which he and Roday tilt at each other will be a treat for fans.

The show has done a great job building on itself and tackling a wide range of cases in order to keep things fresh, and it looks like that will continue.  There are some great guest stars lined up, including James Brolin and a return appearance by Rachel Leigh Cook.  A lot of details come out in the interview below, but first I’ve got some clips for you.

The Mentalist jab in the premiere episode-

Paranoid Advert – This one is pretty good.

Roundup advert for the new season.

Roday And Hill Q&A Interview

I normally wouldn’t include nearly so much of such an interview, but there was just so much I couldn’t bring myself to cut.  It was such a fun time, and it wasn’t long before I practically forgot why I was there.  It’s really long, but it’s great.

And, don’t forget the giveaway below!

(I didn’t get in until near the end… when everyone had asked everything)

Moderator                   Thank you.  Our first question is from the line of Jennifer Iaccino with Media Blvd Magazine.  Please go ahead.

J. Iaccino                     Hello to both of you.

D. Hill                         Hello, how are you doing?

J. Roday How are you?

J. Iaccino                     I’m very well, thank you.  This is a pleasure.  I was thrilled to pieces when I heard that I might have the chance to speak to you both.

But to move on with my questions, I wanted to say to Mr. Roday and Mr. Hill I know that you’ve both played very different characters in other things.  I know that Mr. Roday had actually played alongside to Maggie Lawson in Fear Itself and Mr. Dulé you had a wonderful part on West Wing for a while.  So how do you feel now about playing comedy?  Do you enjoy it better; do you like doing horror or drama more?  How does it feel?

D. Hill                         I actually enjoy comedy; it’s a lot of fun.  After doing seven years of drama on West Wing to be able to come and work with Roday and the rest of the cast has been a blast.  It’s something different, especially working with Roday where he likes to improv a lot it challenges me to work on different muscles that I haven’t used before.

J. Iaccino                     That’s wonderful.  How about you, Mr. Roday?

J. Roday                      Well, first of all I just want to thank you for reminding me that I did in fact appear in Fear Itself; I often forget that.  Secondly, I would say I’ve actually done a lot more comedy than I’ve done drama.  It’s weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it’s kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

But I think what makes this role special compared to some of the other stuff that I’ve done is just the fact that I’ve had the opportunity to live with it so long and sort of watch it sort of grow and nurture it, not unlike you nurture a plant.  And working with a great group and an unbelievable cast and sort of having the freedom to do what we do on the show sort of sets it apart from any role that I’ve played, comedy or drama.  It’s just been a special ride.  It’s been a special ride.

Moderator                   Thank you.  Our next question is from Traci Grant with TheStarScoop.com.  Please go ahead.

T. Grant                       Hello, guys.

D. Hill                         How are you doing, Traci?

T. Grant                       I’m good.  How are you?  Basically, this is for both of you; the show is known a lot for its kind of fast-paced banter between your characters Shawn and Gus.  And so what I want to know is how much sort of say do you guys get in what goes on in the dialog, particularly between the humorous segments and something like the nicknames that Shawn makes up for Gus?  What goes on with those types of moments?

J. Roday                      Unlike, I think, the majority of shows on television right now we actually have a frighteningly high amount of say in what we do with the dialog.  A lot of times it comes in great and all we have to do is say it, but any time we sort of recognize an opportunity to throw something in or add something or if we have a better name for Gus than the one that came in we just pull the trigger.

We’re pretty good at monitoring ourselves so that we only do it if we’re making it better, and it’s very rare that we find out later that the people down in LA were disappointed because we changed something.  They’re usually pretty pleased.

D. Hill                         Yes.  And the names that we come up with most of the time it has to do with somebody that we know, somebody in the cast knows or somebody that one of the writers knows or a producer, something like that.  I would say pretty much eight times to of ten there is some relation to the crazy name that Gus is being called.

T. Grant                       Great.  Thank you so much.

J. Roday                      Thanks, Traci.

D. Hill                         Thank you.

Moderator                   Jessica Mahn with Fan Bolt.com.  Please go ahead.

J. Mahn                       Hello.  This question is for both of you.  What detectives, in real life or in fiction, have been an influence for the characters?

J. Roday                      You know what, I go to this movie called Without a Clue that not a lot of people saw.  It was Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley, and the idea behind the movie was that Watson was the brains of the operation and Holmes was just this very theatrical sort of charlatan that diverted people’s attention and got all the ladies.  It’s a very, very funny movie that not a lot of people have seen.

But I love the fact that it was sort of rooted in the idea that these two guys absolutely, positively were dependent on one another to solve a crime, because Holmes was sort of the face of the franchise but Watson was the guy that sort of kept their feet on the ground and did a lot of the thinking.  That’s not exactly what the dynamic is on Psych, but the sort of ying yang element of it of there’s no way that either of these guys could work on their own and there’s no way that they could accomplish what they were doing without the other one is definitely sort of a big element of what we do on Psych.

So that’s my answer.  I feel decent about it.  I’m passing it off to Dulé.

D. Hill                         I guess for myself it’s not any real I guess template that I came in to with a preconceived notion about like in terms of a previous detective team.  I guess if I had to choose one I would say Cosby and Poitier in Uptown Saturday Night.  I want to say that would be the equivalence that I could think of, but besides that there’s not really anything that I’ve thought about before to say yes, this is what the template is.

Moderator                   Thank you.  Troy Rogers with thedeadbolt.com.  Please go ahead.

T. Rogers                     Hello, James.  Hello, Dule.

J. Roday                      What’s up, dude?

D. Hill                         How are you doing?

T. Rogers                     I just want to say the premise of the premiere episode made me smile, because I’m in Vancouver.  I just wanted to know what was behind the decision to actually feature Van city in the episode?

D. Hill                         I think it’s that we work in Vancouver.  We’ve been working—

J. Roday                      Yes, it was an opportunity to finally not worry about everything that was in the background of all of our shots.  We actually could play the locations for the actual locations, and make believe stickers and Canadian flags all those things were good.  And it was actually a lot of fun; I’m glad we’ve lasted long enough to do one to do that.  It was fun.

D. Hill                         And we finally didn’t have to move our palm trees with this; we could leave the palm trees—

J. Roday                      That’s right, our three movable palm trees got an episode off.

D. Hill                         Right.  They were tired, you know what I mean; the palm trees were tired.  With every episode they were …

J. Roday                      We gave them a much-deserved break.

Moderator                   Thank you.  Our next question is from Tiffany D’Emidio with Eclipse Magazine.  Please go ahead.

T. D’Emidio                Hello, guys.

D. Hill                         How are you doing?

J. Roday                      Tiff!  Where have you been all of our lives?

T. D’Emidio                You know, I’m very stealth and kind of behind the scenes.

J. Roday                      Yes, you are.  Come on out.

T. D’Emidio                Now I’m out.  I have to say that I really enjoyed the first episode, and I particularly loved the Thomas Crown/Remington Steele reference and laughed pretty hard about that one, mostly because the other day I was on Hulu and I actually watched an episode of Remington Steele.  So it just kind of made me laugh.

But I really enjoy the pop culture references that you make in the series, and I just wondered if you could be in any television show of the past which would it be?  Or if you could spoof a show as an episode what would it be?

J. Roday                      Well, my answer is one in the same.  I would have given anything to be on Twin Peaks, and if we last another season we will be doing a Twin Peaks episode.  So there you go.

T. D’Emidio                Really.  That would be interesting to see.  Dulé?

D. Hill                         I guess for myself if I could have been a Cosby kid.

T. D’Emidio                Cosby kid.

D. Hill                         Yes, of course.  If I could have been on Cosby that would have been great for me.  And I guess if we could spoof any show I would say maybe Fame; I could be Leroy.

T. D’Emidio                Fame.  Oh, you really have to do that I think.  I’m going to petition for it.

D. Hill                         Sounds good.

Moderator                   Thank you.  Lauren Tucker with Small Screen Monthly.  Please go ahead.

L. Tucker                     I have a question for both of you.  If you could investigate anybody who would it be?

D. Hill                         If I could investigate anybody who would it be?

J. Roday                      I think I might have to just really roll up my sleeves and investigate Monica Bellucci and just make sure that she’s living her life along the straight and narrow, she’s not cutting any corners in life, in her work; just really get in there and make sure that she’s on the up and up.

D. Hill                         And from my side I would investigate Halle Bear, who is also Halle Berry.

J. Roday                      That’s it; this is classy stuff you’re getting from us today.

Moderator                   Our next question is form the line of Christine Nyholm with examiner.com.  Please go ahead.

C. Nyholm                  Excellent.  My question is it just seems like you have a blast; the show is so fun to watch.  And I was wondering if the show is as much fun to shoot as it is to watch?

D. Hill                         Yes.

J. Roday                      Absolutely.

D. Hill                         We have so much fun up there.  The cast is great, the crew is even greater, and we just have a lot of fun.  No one takes themselves too seriously; we all come to work and we are pretty much getting paid to laugh all day.  We sing songs; we have the best singing crew in Vancouver.  One day if you get a chance you come up there and we’ll have them sing you Happy Birthday just for no reason in particular.  We sing Happy Birthday about three or four times a day just because.  There’s a really great bunch of people up there.

J. Roday                      And we don’t pay royalties for it.  It’s free; we can sing Happy Birthday for free.

Moderator                   Our next question will be from the line of Drucilla Moorhouse with E Online.  Please go ahead.

D. Moorhouse             Hello, guys.

D. Hill                         How are you doing?

J. Roday                      Hey.

D. Moorhouse             At Comic Con you kind of teased that Twin Peaks would be this season.  Is that not true?

J. Roday                      That is not true, unfortunately.  I think that something got lost in the translation there.  This season has sort of been locked for a while; there are no unaccounted for episodes.  That was us teasing with the hoax that if some of our executives were in the audience it was like a hint, hint listen to how bad everybody wants this.  You have to keep us on the air.  It’s a promise; it’s definitely a promise that if there’s a season five Twin Peaks will definitely happen.

D. Hill                         I guess a little teaser too Twin Peaks would be Ray Wise doing our show this year.  A little prelude.

J. Roday                      That’s true.  It’s a Twin Peaks prelude.

Moderator                   Jay Jacobs with PopEntertainment.com.  Please go ahead.

J. Jacobs                      Hey, guys.  I wanted to talk about some of the telltale references.  I actually thought it was really funny the jokes that you made about The Mentalist in the premiere.  When that show started were you guys like going, “Hmm, that sounds familiar,” and was it sort of fun to sort of point that out on screen?

J. Roday                      It was.  No one is off limits when it comes to us, including ourselves.  We’ve made fun of our own sort of resumes on this show.  As long as they have a sense of humor over there I would think that they would be sort of flattered and get a kick out of it.

Obviously, it’s not malicious in any, but it’s what we do on our show and if you’re going to go make a bigger show that’s kind of like our show and get four times as many viewers and Emmy nominations then you should expect to hear about it when our show airs.

Moderator                   Travis Tidmore with CineManiac.  Please go ahead.

T. Tidmore                  Hey, guys, thank you for talking with us today.

J. Roday                      Hey.  No problem.

T. Tidmore                  I’m a big fan of the show and my son is a one-year old and loves your theme song.  I have a video online of him dancing to the theme song.

J. Roday                      Nice.

T. Tidmore                  My question is do you guys have a favorite episode to film or that you think is the best episode you guys have done so far?

J. Roday                      I like different ones for so many different reasons, but I can say that for me personally, just as an actor, I think the most fun I’ve ever had on our show was an episode called Life’s Camera Homicidio when my character got thrust into the world of a Spanish telenovela and I got to improvise in both English and Spanish.  That was a blast.

D. Hill                         Well I guess for that episode I guess Roday to be able to improvise in Spanish he was getting in touch with his roots so he was really excited about that.

But for myself it would still have to go back to American Duos.  I just can’t help it, I just loved dressing up as Michael Jackson and being able to do a moonwalk, have John Landis direct me while I’m dressed up as Michael Jackson in Thriller.  And there was a crowd there, too, so you can’t really beat that.  You can’t really beat that.  That’s one of my all time favorite experiences on Psych.

Moderator                   Our next question is from Suzanne Lanoue with TV MegaSite.  Please go ahead.

S. Lanoue                    Hello.  Thank you for taking our calls today.

J. Roday                      Thanks for being interested enough to ask us questions.

D. Hill                         Yes, you know.

S. Lanoue                    You’re welcome.  I was going to ask you if you had any things that you could tell us about this upcoming season, whatever you feel free to share either overall or specifics about what we can expect this season.

J. Roday                      In terms of sort of themes for episodes you saw that we’re doing sort of an expedition Canada, catch a jewel/art thief episode, and we’re doing sort of a Shawn and Gus save an old western town and everything that comes along with that that you could imagine, including a grizzled, gray bearded James Brolin.

D. Hill                         Exorcism episode.

J. Roday                      Yes, we’re paying tribute to the Exorcist with our exorcism episode featuring the aforementioned Ray Wise, who is just fantastic in the episode I have to say.  Just really came in and knocked it out of the park.

D. Hill American Werewolf in London homage.

J. Roday                      That’s right, a little love letter to American Werewolf in London and werewolf movies in general featuring David Naughton, obviously, and Josh Malina.  And lots of other fun stuff.

I have to say I think we’re kind of storming out of our gates this year with some really good stuff.  I think last year we stormed in our heads, but we were actually like trotting at a casual pace, and this year I actually think we’re storming out of the gates for real.

Moderator                   Roger Newcomb with We Love Soaps.  Please go ahead.

R. Newcomb               Hey, guys.  To kind of follow-up on some previous questions, how many of the pop culture references come from you, including the Chad Michael Murray reference?

D. Hill                         I would say about 99.9% of them do not come from me.  Maybe if there’s something in the ‘70s that might be something that I came with, but most of the ‘80s references I have no idea what I’m talking about.  It’s not until after I film it that I turn around and say, “Okay, now what was that about?”

J. Roday                      Who were the twins that you knew that I had never heard of in Tuesday the 17^th?

D. Hill                         The twins?  Oh, the Mowli Twins.

J. Roday                      The Mowli twins.  That was your 0.01% man.

D. Hill                         That and what’s the other one?  I don’t even know if it made it to air, the Gill Scott Heron.

J. Roday                      Oh, that was.  That made it too.  That made it two.

D. Hill                         Gill Scott Heron.  That’s my two for the year.

J. Roday                      Yes.  Most of them come from the writers and then I throw in my fair share as well.  Chad Michael Murray became the target of some early jabbing for us after I saw some interview where it was like a behind the scenes of House of Wax and he was wearing a wife beater.  It was just a real serious interview, and I got such a kick out of it that we had to have some fun at his expense.  Hopefully he’s a good-natured guy with a sense of humor.

Moderator                   And Alix Sternberg at thetvchick.com.  Please go ahead.

A. Sternberg                Hello, guys.

D. Hill                         How are you doing?

J. Roday                      Hey.

A. Sternberg                Good.  How are you?  So my question is how does becoming co-producers affect your roles on the show?

D. Hill                         I don’t know what Roday thinks, but from my side I don’t think it really changes that much.  I think from the beginning of the show the dynamic has pretty much been what it is.  Maybe say from Roday’s side he may write a few more episodes, but he was already writing episodes anyway.  From my side I would think it’s more of a title; it hasn’t really changed the actual working dynamic that much.  Maybe a little bit changes, but nothing too major.

J. Roday                      Yes.  I think, like Dulé said, the dynamic was sort of set from the first season.  Because none of our producers are up in Vancouver with us it was just sort of a necessary thing that we take on a little more responsibility to help the show sort of run smoothly.  They finally decided to throw us a title for it.

Moderator                   Lauren Becker with Shooting Stars Magazine.  Please go ahead with your question.

L. Becker                    Hey, guys, thank you for talking to us.  I’ve been a huge fan since the very beginning, so I’m really excited about the new season.

D. Hill                         Thank you.  Glad you enjoy it.

J. Roday                      Nice.

L. Becker                    Yes.  My question is just this year they released two books for Psych and your characters and everything, and I was wondering if you were to ever read those yourselves and you could come up with your own kind of merchandise what would you like to see?

D. Hill                         Well I would read it if I had one and if I knew there was one that was out.

J. Roday                      I was going to say it’s good to know that there are books out.  I didn’t know that.

D. Hill                         Maybe I’ll try to read it one day on the set.

J. Roday                      Merchandise.

D. Hill                         I would have to say a video game.  I love video games anyway, so a Psych video game somehow that I could play on Xbox or Wii would be great.

J. Roday                      I have to say I think the idea of a talking bobblehead was pretty solid, and someone actually came up with already and did it.  I love the idea of little Shawn and Gus bobbleheads.

D. Hill                         Which, by the way, I have my President Obama bobblehead also.  So when I get my Psych bobbleheads it will be Shaun, Gus, and President Barack Obama bobbleheads sitting on my counter.

J. Roday                      I might give you Ichiro Suzuki bobblehead just so that you can add it and it would be a quartet.

D. Hill                         Sounds good.

Moderator                   Our next question comes from Russell Trunk with exclusivemagazine.com.  Please go ahead.

R. Trunk                      Gentlemen, wonderful talking with you today, my friends.

J. Roday                      Yes.  Thanks, man.

R. Trunk                      And for the record, Without a Clue is one of my favorite movies of all time.

J. Roday                      Good man.  Good man.

R. Trunk                      Now look I was wondering if you, James, had visited any actual psychics in order to watch and observe them in action?  And if you, Dulé, being an encyclopedia of useless knowledge that oddly becomes useful every week,  is it anything like the way your brain works in real life?

D. Hill                         Well from my side no; I try not to fill up my brain cells with useless information.  So most of the time I’m pretty much just learning it as it comes in the scripts.

J. Roday                      And for me I visited a couple psychics back before we shot the pilot just because I was sort of interested to hear their back stories and sort of how the power manifests itself.

And of course you never know if they’re legit or not, but there were some interesting stories in terms of like physicalizing the gift.  I was interested to hear like does it ever take over your body, does your body heat rise, stuff like that; anything that I could steal.  Of course I did not tell them while visiting that I was going to be playing a fake psychic nor did they figure it out on their own, so maybe that tells you everything you need to know about the people that I met with.

And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from Without A Clue is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, “It is my opinion that this man is dead.”  So there you go.

Moderator                   Thank you.  Kristyn Clarke with popculturemadness.com.  Please go ahead.

K. Clarke                     Which one of you is the most like your character on the series or are you completely different?

J. Roday                      I think we’re both pretty different.  I do.  I think that’s one of the things that is really cool about our show is that we have as much fun as we do, A, and B, we get to play characters that are pretty different from our real life personas.

D. Hill                         But actually going back to someone’s previous question about useless information I would say that Roday is more like Gus in that area, especially with film trivia, ‘80s trivia.  He and Steve Franks can lift off songs on an album.  I guess—

J. Roday                      I have the trunk of useless knowledge.

D. Hill                         Yes.

Moderator                   Karen Jackson with Starpulse.com.  Please go ahead.

K. Jackson                   Hello, guys.  How are you?

D. Hill                         Pretty good.  How are you?

J. Roday                      Good.

K. Jackson                   Pretty good.  Thanks for talking with us.  Love the show.  I was wondering you guys have such great chemistry on the show does that come naturally?

D. Hill                         I think so; I think it comes naturally.  From the time we first got together there was a good vibe there, and we’ve had a cast that continued to grow with it.  I think even off screen we get along very well.  The cast as a whole we like hanging out with each, making each other laugh, going out having dinner, playing poker, playing mafia.  It’s just us up there in Vancouver, so if we didn’t get along then I think it would show itself on screen.  So I would say it comes pretty natural.

J. Roday                      I agree with all of that.

Moderator                   The next question is from Lena Lamoray with Lina Lamoray Magazine.  Please go ahead.

L. Lemorai                  Hello, guys.

D. Hill                         Hello.

J. Roday                      Look at you naming your magazine after yourself.

L. Lemorai                  I know.  Okay, American Duos has to be my favorite episode.  What was it like working with Tim Curry and the rest of the guest stars?

D. Hill                         Oh, wow, it was great.  First of all, just the fact that Roday and Tim Curry went into a little back and forth saying, “No.”  You couldn’t really beat that.  You’re working with a comic genius, a great actor, along with Gina Gershon too, it was great.  And then having John Landis direct, as I said before, for myself it was one of the all time great moments for me on Psych.

J. Roday                      It was a blast of an episode and it was cast perfectly.  It was just one of those things where all the pieces came together and you just sort of sat back and pinched yourself a little bit, because you’re like I can’t believe this is A, happening, and B, like episode one of season two.  So the planets definitely aligned on that one.

Moderator                   Rafe Telsh with WidescreenWarrior.com.  Please go ahead.

R. Telsh                       Hey, guys, it’s great to hear some Without A Clue love there.

J. Roday                      Thanks, man.  Everybody should go rent that movie.  I’m just putting that out there, because that’s such a little gem.

R. Telsh                       I came up with a little trickier question, because your show’s Twitter feed said they were tired of hearing the same questions over and over again.  Both of you play characters who are more complicated than they first appear, like it would be easy to play Shawn as just this grifting slacker but there’s more to him than that.  What do each of you think is your character’s most difficult trait to capture and what moment in the show has allowed that character element to shine?

J. Roday                      Well that’s very insightful and thoughtful indeed.  For me I would say the most challenging thing about playing Shawn is the tight wire act between slacker and man child, and then also somebody that you really do want to invest in emotionally and like every week.  And the line between wanting to rub his head and slap his face is very, very, very thin.  And sort of walking that line and always knowing when to stop is sort of the most challenging on a day-to-day basis.

In terms of like a single event that sort of helped me with that I would say probably when we brought Shawn’s mother onto the show, first episode of season three.  Kind of we peeled back a layer that I think by tapping into it has allowed that sort of tight wire act to get a little easier just because you sort of saw a side of him that was way vulnerable that he didn’t have complete control over.  And once we sort of put that out there I think it made things a little bit easier in terms of the balancing act.

D. Hill                         And then just for myself is one I don’t I guess get too cerebral with my character, so I don’t really think about it like that too often.  I guess when a question comes up it makes me think about it, but in my day-to-day action on the set I don’t really process it I just do it.

I would say I guess for me it would be that Gus to not make him too nerdy but not make him too cool, because he is a nerd.  But at the same time you want him to be cool also, and I think too far in either direction would change the dynamic of the show.  So it’s always trying to find that balance of cool nerdiness or nerdy coolness or something like that.  That would be my answer to that.

Moderator                   Marc Eastman with areyouscreening.com.  Please go ahead.

M. Eastman                 Hello, guys.

J. Roday                      Hey, Marc.

M. Eastman                 When I talked to James a little while ago you kind of gave me the may or may not be a werewolf episode.  I was wondering if at this point there are any may or may not things you would tell us about what’s going to happen.

J. Roday                      Well there may or may not be a continuation of the story that capped off our season last year, An Evening With Mr. Yang.

D. Hill                         And there may or may not be something big coming.

J. Roday                      There may or may be our biggest guest star ever appearing on the show down the stretch.  And we may or may not be getting another dose of what Gus’ hair looked like in the ‘90s.  How’s that?

Moderator                   Josh Bozeman with thebluesite.com.  Please go ahead.

J. Bozeman                  Hello, guys.  Thanks for taking the call today.

J. Roday                      Sure, dude.

J. Bozeman                  My question is kind of weird, but forgive me.  If Shawn and Gus went camping and they ran into a clan of hungry, angry cannibals what would the plan be to fight them off?  And would Gus’ wicked dance moves or maybe his random knowledge come into play somehow?

D. Hill                         I would say first Shawn would probably try to do some kind of psychic intervention to lead them on a place for much better food.  And then Gus would come in and talk about the nutritional principals of the food they were going to get instead of the make-up of eating Shawn and Gus together.  Because eating the two of us together wouldn’t be good, but eating what we’re going to go and get would be that much better.  And somewhere—

J. Roday                      I think there would be a diatribe about how dark meat is far worse for you than white mean, which Shawn of course would take and run with until he realizes that they’re doing a pretty good sales job on white meat and now everybody is just looking at him.  At which point Gus would have to create a diversion, and you would end up with us running as fast as our legs would carry us and probably screaming bloody murder.

D. Hill                         Yes.  At the top of our lungs at the highest pitch possible.

J. Roday                      Yes.

Moderator                   Jay Jacobs with PopEntertainment.com.  Please go ahead.

J. Jacobs                      I was wondering in the new episode you work with Cary Elwes.  What was that like and were there any Dread Pirate Roberts jokes going on?

J. Roday                      We went pretty light on him.  We went pretty light on him with The Princess Bride jokes.  He came in and he was very focused and he wanted to do a really good job.  He had given his character a lot of thought, and that was sort of enough for us, I think, just seeing an actor of that caliber come in and be definitely sort of concerned and tuned in as he was.  I mean don’t get me wrong; we had a great time with him and he was a blast to work with, but we didn’t rib him too much.

Moderator                   Chelsea Daigle with Music, Movies, Mayhem.  Please go ahead.

C. Daigle                     Hello.

D. Hill                         Hello.

J. Roday                      The mayhem.  I want to talk about the mayhem.

C. Daigle                     All right.  Well this question is for both of you.  If you had the opportunity to choose some music for a Psych soundtrack what are a few tracks that would make the cut?

D. Hill                         For a Psych soundtrack?

J. Roday Shout would be on there.

D. Hill Shout would be on there.  I guess I would say Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth.  Oh, Man in the Mirror.

J. Roday Man in the Mirror.  I would give Priscilla Ahn a shout out.

D. Hill                         What’s that one where it goes ahhh, it’s a Hall and Oates one, “I’ll do anything that you want me to.”

J. Roday I Can’t Go For That.

D. Hill                         Yes.

J. Roday                      And Priscilla Ahn’s A Good Day that’s the song that played when Lassiter broke up with his ex-wife.  That probably should be on there.  Maybe at the end.

Moderator                   Traci Grant with TheStarScoop.com.  Please go ahead with your follow-up question.

T. Grant                       Yes, hello again.  So what I want to know is if people haven’t started watching Psych yet why should they tune in now?

D. Hill                         Well there’s so much serious stuff going on in the world I think it’s a great show to come and sit back, put your feet up, and laugh for a little bit; just clear your minds.  I think anyone who comes and watches this show definitely laughs out loud at least once, so if you’re looking to just step away from all the stress for a second then I would say check out Psych.

You know we’re like kids in a candy store, and it kind of brings people back to a time in their youth when people just dared to do anything, and that’s what we do on Psych.

J. Roday                      And there are so few rules that we have to follow in terms of making this show.  I don’t think there are a lot of other shows out there where one week you’re wearing chaps and spurs and riding a horse and the next week you’re running from a potato sack headed killer chasing you into the woods with a machete, and yet you’re still laughing both times.  I think it’s a pretty unique little hybrid; it has something for everyone.

Moderator                   We have a follow-up from Drucilla Moorhouse with E Online.  Please go ahead.

D. Moorhouse             Can you guys hear me?

D. Hill                         Yes.

J. Roday                      I sure can.

D. Moorhouse             I accidentally pressed the hands free and I don’t know how to get it off.  I’m going to go back to the American Werewolf episode.  You wrote that, James.  Right?

J. Roday                      Yes.  I co-wrote that with my best friend Todd Harthan.

P. Moorhouse              Can you talk more about it?  It was my favorite movie of all time.  And is John Landis directing?

J. Roday                      Wow.  I’m right there with you; it’s definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.  The original plan was to have Landis direct it for obvious reasons.  He is off directing a feature in England right now.  So we got the incomparable Andrew Bernstein to step in in his place, who did a fantastic job, who Dulé has known since his West Wing days.

It’s not unlike Tuesday the 17^th; it’s an episode that needs to sort of stand on its own feet, but will definitely have moments where we’re winking and nodding and proclaiming our love for the original.  But it has its own little story and its own little twists and turns.

Just having David Naughton on set was enough for me, because I got to pick his brain for the better part of a week and ended up getting a signed picture of him mid-transformation with the elongated torso reaching up at me.  That’s getting framed and going on a wall.

Moderator                   Karen Jackson with Starpulse.com.  Please go ahead with your follow-up.

K. Jackson                   Hello, guys, again.  I was wondering how has the success of this show changed your life?

D. Hill                         Well for myself it hasn’t really changed that much, because I had come from the West Wing before.  So West Wing had more of a bigger change in terms of my daily life than going from West Wing to Psych.  The only thing I would say there’s more fans, because the audience is different.

But in terms of regular life I wouldn’t say it’s that much.  I guess doing the show has changed my life because I’m in Vancouver six months out of the year.  So you’re kind of battling that being settled in one place, because by the time that I come home and I get settled in LA and used to being home and having my home life I now have to go back to Vancouver and live six months up there.  But there are worse things I can be going through, so I’m not complaining at all.

J. Roday                      My socks and underwear don’t have holes in them anymore.  That was a big deal for me.

Moderator                   Next up is a follow-up from Jennifer Iaccino.  Please go ahead.

J. Iaccino                     Hello again.  I just wanted to know with your vast knowledge about show biz basically and obviously you’ve done some work on writing before, would you guys think about anything in the future that you would like to possibly write or direct?  Maybe a new version of Twin Peaks, knock on wood, because I really loved that show too.

D. Hill                         Well in terms of writing, I think in the future you will see me writing something called Nothing; it will be a blank piece of paper with nothing written on it, because I have no ambition to write so that’s not going to be happening.  I’ll leave all that up to James Roday.

J. Roday                      Yes.  I feel like this have been an invaluable sort of experience for me, because I’ve managed to kind of cut my teeth doing all of the things that I do aspire to do.  Hopefully by the time this show has a long and successful run I’ll have sort of banked enough stuff to sort of go out there and get myself another gig writing or directing.

I can tell you that when we do the Twin Peaks episode it will probably either be myself or Steve Franks directing, and the two of us will certainly write it because I don’t think anyone else knows half as much about that show as we do.  So I don’t think we would feel comfortable handing it off, unless David Lynch wanted to come in and direct, in which case we’d make an exception.

C. Fehskens                 Michael, we have time for one last question.

Moderator                   Okay.  We have a follow up from Courtney Shink with Raked Reviews.  Please go ahead.

C. Shink                      Hello.  I was wondering you’ve had a ton of fantastic guest stars.  Who would you like to see on the show and who do you think they would play?

J. Roday                      My answer is going to stay the same until we get him on.  The answer is David Bowie, and anybody he wants is whom he will play.

D. Hill                         And for myself I would like to get someone like Chris Tucker on the show.  It would be great if he could play some kind of, I mean he could play anybody he wanted to also, but he could play some kind of relative of mine or something.  It would be a lot of fun.

J. Roday                      I think David Bowie could also play David Bowie if he wanted to, and Shawn and Gus could just have an episode where they hung out with David Bowie.

D. Hill                         I think David Bowie could play Mr. Guster in season five.

J. Roday                      He could.

D. Hill                         There you go—because we change my dad all the time.  Like dude, your daddy is David Bowie. … is not showing.

J. Roday                      That would be fantastic.

Whew!

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Psych Novel

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